Sir,

It looks increasingly likely that there will be a ‘People’s Vote’ to decide which of the following options we want, now it is clear that ‘cakeism’ (having one's cake AND eating it) isn’t on the agenda:

1) We can leave the EU and have no guaranteed access to our biggest market for our cattle and sheep exports (and other agricultural products) with a tariff on them too;

2) We can have a fudge where we pretend to leave the EU but in fact have to obey every rule without a veto on the stupidest dictats but without the tariff;

3) We can remain in the EU and continue to enjoy the benefits of belonging to a huge tariff free common market and the negotiating tactics of French farmers, who seem to be far better at extracting money and support for agriculture than we were when Gove thought he could boss us about recently. Fortunately in the EU, if we remain, we get what they get.

If anyone, but a vast barley baron, wants to vote anything other than remain in a second referendum, then they need to see the doctor urgently.

Don’t vote to be poorer. Vote to be richer and vote remain…and agitate for that vote too. How can it be undemocratic for ‘the people’ to decide?

I am not at all surprised it has come to this. I was at Oxford with many of these Tory twerps. Couldn’t be trusted with an expedition to buy a packet of chips. They invariably forgot their wallet (which would be empty anyway). They were without exception wallies and certainly never owned a pair of wellies.

Adrian Hill (New College Oxford 1976-1979)

Woodside Farm

Brougham

Penrith

CA10 2AP